Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system

2018-05-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 02:44:16AM +, David Griffith wrote: > > Have any advances been made in figuring out just how to remove > libsystemd0 from a Debian 9 machine that's running sysvinit? The > ongoing presence of libsystemd0 has caused slowly-

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/05/18 07:35, Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:06:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and >> Eject? > > There are none. The device is either unmounted or it isn't. It cannnot > be half-unmounted. Hmm. Is there not

Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system

2018-05-05 Thread David Griffith
Have any advances been made in figuring out just how to remove libsystemd0 from a Debian 9 machine that's running sysvinit? The ongoing presence of libsystemd0 has caused slowly-progressing trouble with several machines of mine culminating in complete failure a couple days ago. Initially I

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2018-05-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Modestas Vainius: > Hello, > > On ketvirtadienis 06 Gegužė 2010 23:48:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [...] > > > YOU assume that your truth is an ultimate one. > > > > Not really. I made objective statement about KMail based on > > observable facts. I also vo

Re: color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 May 2018 18:11:18 tom arnall wrote: > Greetings! > > over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with > color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going > into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this > problem. > > Reg

Re: color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Sat, 5 May 2018 15:11:18 -0700 tom arnall said: > the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going into a state > where most of the color is pink. My monitor sometimes tends to get fluctuating, weak, or lost blue signal, which results in yellowish tendency. It is probably a conn

Re: color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 05 May 2018 at 15:11:18 (-0700), tom arnall wrote: > over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with > color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going > into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this > problem. My only experie

Re: color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread Felix Miata
tom arnall composed on 2018-05-05 15:11 (UTC-0700): > over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with > color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going > into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this > problem. IME that's almost ce

Re: color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, May 5, 2018, 6:11 PM tom arnall wrote: > Greetings! > > over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with > color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going > into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this > problem. > I had t

color unstable under jessie

2018-05-05 Thread tom arnall
Greetings! over the last few weeks i've been having trouble on my system with color. the color on the screen becomes very unstable, and keeps going into a state where most of the color is pink. has anyone else had this problem. Regards, Tom Arnall

Re: messed up release in apt

2018-05-05 Thread Anil Duggirala
I have removed the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg and that removed the error from apt update. I will try now adding correct stretch-backports and installing the packages I require, thanks a lot, On Tue, May 1, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 01 May 2018 at 09:18:56 -0500, David Wright wrote: >

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 May 2018 at 11:06:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and > Eject? There are none. The device is either unmounted or it isn't. It cannnot be half-unmounted. -- Brian.

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 08:41:21PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > CAP_DESTROY_HARDWARE and CAP_ENDANGER_BYSTANDERS. > > Reco wrote: > > Please. Surely you heard of SATA/SAS hotplug? Or SATA rack? > > Plus a robot arm which performs the mechanical part ? EMC d

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

2018-05-05 Thread deloptes
Alexander Traud wrote: > Or am I on the complete wrong track and this is not even a minor bug? IMO it is not really a bug, because I do not need pkg-config, to build some peace of code. pkg-config is needed in case you use the build scripts that require pkg-config, but the developer could not kno

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > CAP_DESTROY_HARDWARE and CAP_ENDANGER_BYSTANDERS. Reco wrote: > Please. Surely you heard of SATA/SAS hotplug? Or SATA rack? Plus a robot arm which performs the mechanical part ? But i rather thought of a 3.5 inch steel frisbee hopping out of its casing at 7200 rpm. And even if

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 05:59:15PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2018 11:06:25 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > Hello Richard, > > >Why? > > Probably not an exhaustive list > > Ever tried to eject an HD? Yup. Did it a week ago last time, I was changing yet anothe

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 07:04:08PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and Eject? > > [...] For a hard disk partition, only the first is given. > > To eject a hard disk you need the undocumented privileges CAP_DESTROY_HARDWAR

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 5 May 2018 11:06:25 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: Hello Richard, >Why? Probably not an exhaustive list Ever tried to eject an HD? (Un)mount is the only thing that makes sense here. Safely Remove is to ensure writes to flash drives etc. are actually completed as opposed to being in

Re: Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and Eject? > [...] For a hard disk partition, only the first is given. To eject a hard disk you need the undocumented privileges CAP_DESTROY_HARDWARE and CAP_ENDANGER_BYSTANDERS. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Distinguishing among [unmount, Safely Remove Drive, Eject]

2018-05-05 Thread Richard Owlett
What are the distinguishing features of unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and Eject? The question is prompted by observing that for partitions on USB flash drives which have been auto-mounted, one or both of the last two are listed when clicking on the icon associated with a partition. For a hard

Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a Gstreamer bug

2018-05-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-05-05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Dinesh Iyer wrote: >> "You'll have to talk to whoever is providing you your older version of >> GStreamer. They will have to backport the fix to that old version, but it >> should just cleanly apply to the older versions." >>

Re: Debian 9 t: Update Gstreamer Base plugins package to resolve a Gstreamer bug

2018-05-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 May 2018, Dinesh Iyer wrote: > "You'll have to talk to whoever is providing you your older version of > GStreamer. They will have to backport the fix to that old version, but it > should just cleanly apply to the older versions." > > The patch that needs to be applied is: > https://gith

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

2018-05-05 Thread Alexander Traud
>> libsrtp2-dev needs pkg-config only when I compile it myself. > The libsrtp2-dev package surely both depends and build-depends on > pkg-config. Yes, the package description (debian/control) does. The created files do not. I can compile, link, and run with libsrtp2.so without pkg-config. Actuall

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 05/05/18 07:45, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just realized that I goofed when I wrote the name of > the application that combines multiple drives in to one large > drive. I meant > mhddfs for example: > mhddfs /rsnapshot1,/rsnapshot2 /var/cache/rsnapshot -o mlimit=100M > >/de